Standardized testing provides neither fair nor helpful evaluation feedback. It requires the ability to answer superficial questions quickly, which prioritizes rote memorization and knee-jerk thinking rather than deep or creative thinking. Instead of holding schools accountable for being places where students learn how to think and and analyze the world around them, standardized testing rewards… [Read More]

Over the weekend, Deal said he was open to appointing a black member to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association Board of Directors. He even said he didn’t know the entire board was white. This seems a little far-fetched considering he appointed or reappointed eight out of ten members. He even reappointed some of them more… [Read More]

It’s difficult to say if a mass shooting has ever been stopped by an armed civilian. For every source that lists an occasion when a civilian was able to stop an active shooter, there are three sources ready to point out that the “civilian” involved was really off duty or retired military or that the shooter… [Read More]

Nationally, 95 percent of college presidents, 94 percent of college faculty, 89 percent of campus police chiefs, and 74 percent of college students oppose concealed weapons on campus. An informal poll by The Red & Black indicated that about 62 percent of the UGA student body opposed the bill outright, while a poll at Georgia… [Read More]

This weekend, nearly 12,000 adults in 21 Georgia counties will lose their food stamps. The April 1 deadline follows the rolling out of the same plan, which deprives “able-bodied” adults from receiving food stamps if they don’t have a job, in three counties earlier this year. This plan, which is little more than thinly veiled… [Read More]

After being publicly questioned about his new education plan by the state superintendent, Georgia’s highest elected education official, Deal has once again resorted to insults and intimidation. Deal’s new education plan includes the new role of “Chief Turnaround Officer” (READ: “Education Czar”), who would report to the state Board of Education. The state BOE is… [Read More]

In a vote of 138 to 37, school takeover 2.0–House Bill 338 passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday. It allows state intervention in schools labeled “unacceptable” by whatever measure the state chooses to use. The bill still silences parents and educators and still takes away local control. As passed, the bill offers no additional… [Read More]

We don’t know the details for school takeover 2.0 but we do know that Gov. Nathan Deal isn’t listening to the people of Georgia. Even though 60 percent of Georgians voted against school takeover, Deal is working on another plan that will be equally bad for Georgia’s students. Although voters said no, Deal is working… [Read More]

Today on the show we’re talking with Amy Morton, Board Chair for Better Georgia, about Governor Deal’s attempt at another school takeover. After his ballot measure failing miserably in November, he’ll be trying to introduce a bill during this legislative session that will do the same damage. But we think Georgians won’t be fooled. You… [Read More]

This week we’re discussing the upcoming Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women on January 21st. We sat down to talk with Janel Green, one of the organizers of the march, about how she got involved and how you can participate. We’re also giving you a preview of this year’s legislative session. It looks like… [Read More]